Times of Harvey Milk, Screening and Discussion

04/17/05

Monday, April 18 in Clark Lounge at 7:00 pm
Professor Marty Brownstein screens and discusses The Times of Harvey Milk

When Harvey Milk was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, he was one of the country's first openly gay men to assume public office. One year later, he and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Milk's fellow council member, former police officer and fire fighter Dan White. The Times of Harvey Milk recreates the tumultuous story of Milk's grassroots political organizing and election.

The story is told through the shocking murders and their repercussions -- from the eloquent candlelight memorial joined by tens of thousands of San Franciscans on the evening of the assassinations, to the angry mobs who stormed City Hall, breaking windows and torching police cars in the aftermath of White's lenient sentencing at his murder trial.

This classic portrait of communities in conflict has won countless awards, including the Academy Award for best documentary feature, and was voted one of the two best documentaries of the decade in an American Film Magazine critics' poll.

Discussion Facilitator : Marty Brownstein, politics department

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services

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